Raising a Real Man in a Metro-Sexual World
Trying to raise a real man in today’s world may be harder than splitting an atom. Everyday our kids are bombarded with images and messages of the most unmanly things imaginable. Magazines are full of sexually ambiguous models dressed in feminine clothes in homo-erotic poses. There’s a new book out every month about how you don’t need a man in the house to raise a man. TV shows typically are full of metro-sexual, gay, and otherwise wimpy male characters, and nearly every Hollywood movie that comes out has at least one homosexual character. Almost every dad in the movies or on TV is either a miserable lout or a complete buffoon. At school your kids are subjected to all sorts of programs designed to promote unmanly lifestyles. Real men have disappeared from history books and have been replaced with politically correct figures. Any boy reading magazines, attending public school, and watching TV or movies would assume that half of the men in the world are gay, and the other half are metro-sexual or girlie men. That’s why your job as a father is as tough as it’s even been. It’s you against the world.
Let’s be clear about a dad’s role in raising a child. It takes a man and a woman to raise a real man. A boy needs a mother to nurture him, and take care of him. He also needs the influence of a strong, masculine male figure in his life. These influences balance each other out. If you’re missing either influence, you tend to get less than optimal results.
Children need and rely on their mothers more at an early age. However, as a boy becomes a teenager and advances through adolescence, his father must step up his influence. This is the time where boys typically begin to rebel and assert some independence. This is when they start to become men. They begin to gravitate towards their fathers. They seek out more dangerous or risky activities.
As your boy starts to grow into a man and seeks out your guidance, you still need to support his mother’s influence. For example, a male teenager will often disrespect his mother because they’re acting out in their masculinity. No longer are they physically inferior to their mothers. They’ll usually test their mothers more than their fathers. A father has to set the boy straight. They need to be taught to always act respectfully towards their mothers.
Of course, raising a kid is always a crap shoot. You can do everything by the book, and still end up with a kid who goes completely off the deep-end. They may rebel, run away, turn to drugs, and act out in all sorts of self-destructive ways you never imagined possible. Also, how many of us have two or more kids that we’ve treated exactly the same way, only to watch one of them go in a completely different direction. You drive yourself nuts trying to figure out what you did wrong. Sometimes, it has nothing to do with you. It’s just the personality of the child, their friends, and other influences over which you have very little control.
However, chances are that if a boy is raised by a real man in a structured environment, he’s much more likely to grow in to a real man himself - a strong, independent, and responsible man. So how do you raise a strong, independent, responsible, real man – a man who is honorable, intelligent, financially stable, able to take care of and protect his own family, and able to successfully raise children of his own? Here are some suggestions:
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